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No. 143,199, Patented September23,1873.

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DANIEL TERRY, on WAKEMAN, OHIO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143, E99, dated September 23,1873; application filed April 28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL TERRY, of WVakeman, in the county of Huron, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Holdback for Carriages, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings makin g a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a pair of thills having attached thereto the holdback. Fig.

2 is a top view of Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views presented.

The nature of this invention relates to a neck-yoke and breast-strap used in connection with a single harness and a pair of thills. The

object thereof is to hold back the carriage by strap, D, which depends therefrom down be tween the forele gs of the horse to the girth, and thereto secured by passing the belly hand through the loop of the strap.

It will be obvious that, by this device, the thills cannot be pushed forward through the thill-loops (by which they are held up) on stopping the carriage, backing, or going down hill,

as the forward tendency thereof in any event is restrained, and the carriage held back by the breast strap D, belly-band, and yoke, thereby dispensing with the use of breeching and hold-back straps such as are in common use.

The straps F may be used in connection with the breast-strap and yoke. In the event they are used, said straps are secured to the tugbuckles, or to the side straps of the harnesssaddle, and thereby avoid the use of the breechin g part of the harness.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The yoke (J and breast-strap D, as arranged in combination with the thills A, having the hoops B, as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: DANIEL TERRY.

W. H. BURRIDGE, L. D. Ronnnrs. 

